Character varieties as a tensor product

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2017.09.004MaRDI QIDQ1702718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Kassabov, Sasha Patotski

Publication date 28 February 2018

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02694

zbMATH Keywords

character varietiesHopf algebrastensor products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hopf algebras and their applications (16T05) Categorical structures (18D99)

Abstract: In this short note we show that representation and character varieties of discrete groups can be viewed as tensor products of suitable functors over the PROP of cocommutative Hopf algebras. Such view point has several interesting applications. First, it gives a straightforward way of deriving the functor sending a discrete group to the functions on its representation variety, which leads to representation homology. Second, using a suitable deformation of the functors involved in this construction, one can obtain deformations of the representation and character varieties for the fundamental groups of 3-manifolds, and could lead to better understanding of quantum representations of mapping class groups.

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